This article will explain the new features and updates to existing features that were introduced in version 5.0.253


Note: In this article, Q/S/O refers to quotes, sales and orders.


New Features

New and Enhanced Reporting

  • Extensive Reporting updates, enhancements and changes have been added
    • Most of the general reports have been re-designed and many of them have more filters and enhanced filtering ability
    • Many more stock reports were added
  • You can now select a custom date range for most general reports, in addition to the build-in date ranges.
  • General reports now print the description of the report under the title. This can be turned off by editing the layout of the report.


Updates to Existing Features

  • The Price Breakdown dialog in Order Entry now separates additional charges from customer promotions.

  • Changing the style will now reset any base retail cost or price overrides.
  • All the payment details are now shown on process reports when payments are selected to be shown.
  • When a product is replaced using the Replace Product feature, any base retail cost or price overrides are reset.
  • Sales tax rates can be entered with 3 decimal places
  • You must now confirm you want to enter customer measurements with no dimensions.
  • When exporting purchase orders to QuickBooks, products are now checked to make sure they are exported.
  • Email preferences for AOL have been added.
  • More descriptive error messages are shown when there is a problem sending email.You are no longer prompted to login to Solatech if there is no Internet connection.
  • When purchase orders are sent the software checks to make sure any related Order Entry windows are closed.
  • The shipping method for a new quote or sale is now pulled from that of the selected customer.
  • When opening a general report in Adobe, the PDF opened uses the current filters instead of the default filters.


Additional Logo Support

  • You can now add a logo to a process report and have it scale correctly when using large fonts in Windows.
    • In previous releases, systems that were using large fonts (DPI > 100%) where prevented from using logos on process reports because the logo would not size correctly. You can now add logos to process reports
    • Refer to this KB article for steps on how to do this. How to add a logo on a computer using large fonts


Changed / Fixed

  • Canceling a sale now cancels any attached purchase orders.
  • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused quote or sale numbers of 0 when clicking the New command from inside Order Entry.
  • Security settings for creating or editing vendors has been fixed.
  • Pressing Enter while adding notes to a vendor does not cause the Vendor dialog to close.
  • When printing multiple process reports the first report in the list is no longer printed multiple times.
  • Closing the Send Email dialog with the X no prevents the email from being sent.
  • When viewing sales in the Accounting Center, the Show All Sales/Orders filter no longer causes quotes to be shown.
  • Products that were renamed now appear in Product Updater.
  • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused multiple Order Entry windows for the same Q/S/O to be opened.